Re: xorg vt switching on thinkpad x41

On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:57 32AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> bch%methodlogic.net@localhost wrote:
>
>> Are you sure the 5th VT is where X is running?
>
> I'm not sure at all. :-) But this is a vanilla NetBSD install without
> any modifications on my part (other than generating the X config and
> enabling ttys), and for ages it used to be on the 5th VT.
>
> Anyway, I can't get X back on *any* VT. I can switch to the others (and
> find them on 1,2,3 and 4), but going to VT5 the screen resets (as if it
> was switching to X), but then blanks.
Is X still running? If you log in on another text console, does 'ps' output
look right? What happens if you do a suspend/resume?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb